‘non-sign II’ is an installation by seattle based art collective lead pencil studio located at the canada-US border near vancouver. the sculpture is made from small stainless steel rods that are assembled together to create the negative space of a billboard. while most billboards draw attention away from the landscape ‘non-sign II’ frames the landscape, focusing attention back on it.

Flying Houses series, by Laurent Chéhère. "Employing traditional photography and digital manipulation, ... [t]he artist takes a variety of residential structures out of their defining neighbourhood backdrops. Released from their choked streets, the houses float amidst the clouds, like kites." Caption from photo site

For his project Flying Houses, photographer Laurent Chehere photographed various buildings and then Photoshopped them to transform them into surreal floating houses.

French photographer Laurent Chehere is no stranger to the photo world. His dreamy and fantastical images have been used commercially by Audi and Adidas. However, Chehere recently decided to hang up his commercial top hat and focus solely on creating fine art. His most recent series, entitled Flying Houses, plays on our child like fantasies of flight and how we think about our everyday surroundings.

Photo: This is the color of my dreams, detail Joan Miró, 1925 Oil on canvas

I named Ilee after this artist because I had a dream that a young girl named Miro came to help me raise my daughter. This was before I ever became pregnant. Ilee now loves the paintings of Miro (as well as Matisse, Picasso, all the great artists).. blue is her favorite colour to paint with . Joan Miro, This is the Color of my Dreams, 1925

Joan Miró, 'This is the colour of my dreams', 1925. Apparently some people dream in black and white. Though perhaps this thought isn't to be taken literally. It predates René Magritte's 'The treachery of images' 1928-9 - the one labeled 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe.' Though Magritte played around with that idea quite a bit... ironically Miró's dreams are more accurately represented than Magritte's pipe. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jun/19/magritte-tate-liverpool-in-pictures

SUBMISSION: the compulsively tidy ursus wehrli visually organizes life in his latest book, the art of the clean up

Ursus Wehrli - Christmas Tree - The Art Of Cleaning Up

Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli is releasing a new book on The Art of Clean Up, where he takes everyday scenes of disorder and rearranges them into neat rows, sorted by different attributes such as color, size, shape, and type, etc.